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How old were you when you made your first Dollar online?

How old were you when you made your first Dollar online?
I was 18 making few dollars via Adsense on my entertainment news website

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    I was "today years old" when made my first dollar online -- 32

    Today I made my first dollar in a presell of an Info product on Gumroad, feels exciting that a stranger on the internet decided to pay me money for information!
    Still can't believe it, keep going to check the email 😅

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      Congrats! BTW, that feeling never gets old.

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    Totally showing my age here. And it was before online existed. But I wrote a very simple game for my ZX81 (!!!) when I was 12 and sent it to a computer magazine (back in the day, you could buy the magazine, then type in the code line by line to get the game :D ). It was published and they gave me £20.

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    I am 16. I earned $30 by selling Diablo 4 Gold.

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    I was 16 (now 31).

    I had made a website about French Idol’s top contestant of the year. People could download hq videos of his performances every week. I made money through ads on the site.

    SEO was easier back then, as I just had to buy the domain name (translated from French: Christopher-French-idol.com) to rank first 😂.

    I will always remember the night of the season finale. Every time I refreshed the Google Adsense dashboard, I had made more money. I think I made 100€ in that night.

    It was illegal, but since the network didn’t have any video online presence at the time, didn’t get me in trouble.

    The year after, I started “industrializing” and did the same thing but for every candidate. However that’s the year where the network launched their online platform. They sent me a ceast and desists.

    17yo me got super scared 😱 . And I stopped everything.

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    13 - I sold World of Warcraft gold for PC parts (I could have taken cash but had to invest in a new PC)

    I was pretty good at the auction house, I would buy raw material, convert them to uncut gems and then cut them.

    I had multiple accounts with the skills required to do it.

    I also had spreadsheets to make sure I was buying at a profitable price.

    I had suppliers who gave me a good price as well for raw materials.

    This is one reason I love SaaS. In theory you should be able to plug numbers into a spreadsheet and workout what to do. In reality it is a little harder.

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    27/28, I setup a website called Divers Travel Network, listing scuba resorts around the world. Each listing I think was about £100 and only managed to sell a handful as most resorts we called up had never heard of the internet. But even so, I agree with you @dtunker, definitely the good old days!

    but this question is so not fair ;-) For some of us oldies, the internet didn't really appear in the UK til we were mid 20's. If it had been around earlier I would definitely have tried to do something age 11, instead of getting up at 5am each morning to deliver newspapers in the freezing cold! I totally admire you @skylex, doing stuff online age 11!!

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      @steveprocter Always amazed of the diversity of ideas people come up with

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        indeed! from reselling clothes online to selling currency for online games, the responses here are amazing.

        there's an entire story (and ebook?) around why I set that site up ;-) But yeah it's the diversity of ideas that I love in this world. When I started my career as an IT consultantant 30 years ago, it was the conformity that drove me to boredom and to leave after 5 years.

        "Be Indie"

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    18 Reselling clothes online

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      Yes! It taught me so much about copywriting and product photography.
      Miss those days making listings and sales every week!

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        Did you have a specific niche you were serving? For me, it was vintage The North Face products.

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          haha, love it! for me it was the vintage fall clothing as well -- jacket, dress shirt and ugly sweater.

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    I think 12-13? I had a YouTube channel and ended up becoming a YouTube partner.

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    16 or 17. I sold a lot of second hand clothing on ebay.

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      haha me too! Good days!

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    Like 30 something?? Sold some snapchat geo templates or whatever they're called.

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    Starting selling on eBay when I was 11. My mom helped me set up my account. I sold all the stuff in my room I didn't use. It was like Christmas for 11 year old me.

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    Sold a Flash game sponsorship at 24 (late 2007).

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    I was 14 years old, I didn't realize I made money.

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    I was 22. Started dropshipping print on demand products using Teespring and ads on Facebook.

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    47 -- a $12 affiliate payment for Sendy.co

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    My dad reminded me recently, I use to sell admin access to counter-strike servers for $10 bucks a month when I was 12. (2002). People were literally mailing me checks.

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    I made my first dollar from Pay-to-click websites back when I was 11 or 12.
    I then went on to sell graphic designs to these businesses for $1 to $3 each, as I realized that clicking ads for <$0.01 wasn't a great use of my time.

    All the money I earned went towards buying new books or trying new "businesses", a decision I'm very proud of.

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    I was 20 making ~10$ by graphic design project 😄

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    20yrs, made using adsense program by cheating their algorithm. Then reinvested to make more money in decent ways.

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    Ahhh good times. I was 17 years old, spending $1,000 a month on Google traffic to affiliate sites (and making 2-3x that back).

    I got invited on a gadget company's ski holiday as a congratulations for being one of their top affiliates... and they had to ask my parent's permission to take me! It was Whistler, in Canada... so I couldn't even drink! xD

    Ever since then, I haven't been able to shake the taste for it - nothing better to waking up to commission overnight.

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    39..I sold a pair of hightop nikes on poshmark for about 40 bucks..they were fresh but I think I wore them once maybe twice..neway I looked on the person who bought them poshmark site and he's trying to sell them for if I can remember about $110..whatever it was a lesson learned but I still was excited on my very first sell online

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    Well, if we speak about $ - 25, but if to speak about money in my national currency - 16 :) And I started profiting from my classmates for doing homework for them :)

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    I was 17 when I created couple of guitar video lessons for online website. Some years later, when being in college, I sold some of my music through AudioJungle.

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    29 when launched my tiny iOS game and first commercial product Eve of Impact 🌏☄️

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    16 years old, building websites.

    The passport department within Dubai Intentional Airport was my first paying client!

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    20 made 40$ on a animation project it was awesome experience

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    33, I sold featured space/ad space on colorsandfonts.com for 20€.

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    19 writing programming articles

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    I'd say about 17, I sold items for Diablo 2 in a shop I built myself ;)

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    Probably in my mid twenties. I had a blog about PHP/Zend Framework tips and tricks that made some money through Google AdSense.

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    I were like 11-12 y.o. I created web site from other's guy template. I were selling currency for online game in social network. Earned like $500 with $100 profit. One day, random dude just stolen all my currency: he saw access token to my account in website error log. I weren't good at coding then :D So I closed my website. Sad story, but actually it was very fun. Since then I code and build stuff online.

    P.S. Believe me or not, I bought 1k/day traffic for just $3. Crazy time.

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